De ware aard van de oorlog tegen het terrorisme...

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Blood and Oil

The notion that oil is a reason for America’s military engagements in the Middle East is
often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new
documentary based on the critically acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense
correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the
historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten
passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at
the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years — rendering our
contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable.

At the heart of this story is a meeting between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud on Valentine’s Day, 1945, aboard the USS Quincy in
Egypt’s Great Bitter Lake. In that meeting, President Roosevelt made a pact with the
King that still resonates today: the United States will provide military protection for
Saudi Arabia in exchange for privileged American access to Saudi Arabia’s vast oil
reserves. With methodical precision, Klare details how this meeting has spawned a series
of events and presidential policies that have resulted in repeated American military
operations and wars in the Persian Gulf.

In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that
unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the
global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.


Blood and Oil covers the relationship between US foreign policy and US energy policy
from FDR to the present and is composed of the following seven sections.

Introduction

Klare emphasizes the extent to which the American economy is dependent on oil and
how increasingly that oil must be imported from foreign countries in unstable parts of the
world.

A Declaration of Dependence

Klare describes how Franklin Roosevelt was the first American President to make oil a
central feature of foreign policy. He focuses on Roosevelt’s 1945 meeting with the King
of Saudi Arabia, the oil-for-protection partnership that resulted, and how this agreement
continues to resonate today.

By Any Means Necessary

Klare details how the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter doctrines were motivated
by the need to protect and maintain US dominance in the Persian Gulf. The most striking
doctrine is from Jimmy Carter who, in his 1980 State of the Union Address, declared
explicitly that the United States would use military force to protect American access to
Middle Eastern oil.

CENTCOM

Klare discusses the creation of the Central Command in 1983 and how Reagan clearly
intended for CentCom’s focus to be the protection of the flow of Middle East oil.
Examples include the escorting of Kuwaiti tankers through the Straight of Hormuz by US
warships in 1987 and the original rationale for the first President Bush’s decision to use
military force to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait in the Gulf War.

Fueling Terror

With Saddam Hussein left in power at the end of the Gulf War, Klare explains, President
George H.W. Bush decided the United States would need to keep a significant number of
American troops in Saudi Arabia to effectively prevent Hussein from further regional
aggression. The presence of these American military personnel enraged many religiously
conservative Saudis, including Osama bin Laden, who then created the terrorist network
Al Qaeda. Bin Laden immediately began calling on his followers to attack US interests
in the Middle East as well as the United States itself.

Maximum Extraction

Klare emphasizes that President George W. Bush’s first stated priority upon taking office
was to develop a new, comprehensive national energy policy. Dick Cheney headed the
National Energy Policy Development Group and concluded that the United States might
have to intervene aggressively to ensure that oil-producing states increase their output to
keep up with global demand.

A Higher Purpose

Klare argues that Americans are unwilling to sacrifice the lives of their fellow citizens in
wars over resources. But he warns that unless we delink our energy and military policies,
we face a future of increasingly dangerous competition over the control of oil and natural
gas between the United States and rising powers like Russia and China.


http://www.bloodandoilmovie.com/download/Blood_and_Oil_EPK.pdf
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Op zondag 6 juli 2008 21:32 schreef Sjetan het volgende:
2. Er worden al sinds de jaren 80 geen grote olievelden meer gevonden, alle olievelden zijn nu z'n beetje wel ontdekt.

dit is bullshit .. de olie is nog lang niet op, op deze wereld.
Alaska ligt vol met olie alleen de amerikanen doen er niks mee omdat als ze er iets mee doen dan stort de dollar in.. En doordat ze hun olie in het middenoosten kopen lossen ze hun staatsschuld op.

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Op donderdag 3 juli 2008 18:16 schreef OpenYourMind het volgende:
Een nieuwe documentaire over olie als geopolitieke redenen voor de aanwezigheid van het Westen in het Midden Oosten met unieke beelden waarvan (o.a. een stuk uit de speech van Cheney voor de Senate Armed Services Committee)

Zie Youtube: Blood and Oil - A Declaration of Dependence
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Zie ook het boek van Michael T. Klare "Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy"

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Synopsis

The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years – rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.